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Chinese symbol for “slide”

滑动
huá dòng
Traditional: 滑動
to slide; sliding movement

The closest CC-CEDICT match for slide is 滑动 (huá dòng), defined as: to slide; sliding movement.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

滑 huá
to slip, to slide; slippery, polished
radical 85 ⽔ · 13 strokes
动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “slide”

WordPinyinMeaning
滑行huá xíngto slide; to coast
滑huáto slip; to slide; slippery; smooth
幻灯片 (幻燈片)huàn dēng piàn(computing) presentation slide; (photography) slide
推移tuī yí(of time) to elapse; to pass; (of a situation) to develop; to evolve
打滑dǎ huáto skid; to slip

Related words

Other words that share a character with 滑动.

WordPinyinMeaning
下滑xià huáto slide down (a slope etc); (fig.) to decline
滑雪huá xuěto ski; skiing
滑稽huá jīcomical; funny; amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]); huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
光滑guāng huásmooth
滑坡huá pōrockslide; landslip
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)yùn dòngto move; to exercise
行动 (行動)xíng dòngoperation; action

See also: Japanese symbol for “slide”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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